Mike Wolf

Someone (I think it was Courtney) handed me a print out of this article:  How Americans Game the $200 Billion-a-Year ‘Disability-Industrial Complex’

Maybe this is a topic. If not, we can try something else.

Equal Rights Amendment FAQ.

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay act,and history

Supreme Court Case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Inc.  (Supreme court)  Wikipedia

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001#0

At least 41% of Republican men report feeling a “moderate” or “great deal” of gender discrimination this election cycle, compared to 27% of Democratic men who feel the same, according to the report, which drew data from the American National Election Studies. Comparatively, 33% of men overall say they feel the same. From here

That’s right, white people, some 55% of whom say whites are discriminated against in America today, according to a new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson/Harvard poll. Now, this is not entirely a surprise—a 2011 Harvard study found a similar conclusion: “Whites see racism as a zero sum game they are now losing.” From here

 

Marion has invited Nancy Murdock from ERA Maine to join us on Monday, 4 Dec, to talk with us about the Equal Rights Amendment.

Nancy recommends that we read the  ERA Maine  website and this article from the Portland Press Herald (written by Nancy). She’s also written this and this.

Did you know that the Maine ERA group started in Blue Hill? I didn’t until I read it on the website. What else don’t we know?